The 9,000 men of Rifle Company Butterworth (RCB) are fighting to have their deployment and its risks recognised as warlike service. EXCLUSIVE – PAUL MALEY 28th February 2020 ‘We were put into harm’s way’: Ray Fulcher served in the Second Malayan...
Rifle Company Butterworth
Australian Cold War Warriors – The Secret Aussie History of the Second Malaysian Confrontation (Counter Insurgency War)
The author, aged 19, Christmas 1977, RCB Malaysia This is the personal account of Private Sean Arthur’s experience as a Rifleman at RCB in 5 Platoon, Bravo Company 1st Battalion, the Royal Australian Regiment (RAR) in 1977. “It’s kind of strange to think that an...
RCB Update 4/2019 – Action Changes Things
Facts from the Aust and Malaysian Governments’ records prove that RCB’s operational deployment (1970-1989) to protect the RAAF assets at Air Base Butterworth against the communist terrorists threat during Malaysia’s Counter Insurgency War (1968-1989) was warlike. READ...
RARA QLD – eNews 2/2019 April
RARA Queensland's eNews replaces the previously printed Newsletter "The Spirit". This is the second quarterly edition. Enjoy the Read
RCB Update 2/2019
A big shout out and thanks to our supporters for your generous donations to our RCB Legal Fighting Fund. The result is very encouraging – every little counts and as is said in the song from little things big things grow. You all know that over 12 years our RCB...
RCB – Legal Fighting Fund
It’s time for legal action. Despite the overwhelming evidence the RCB Review Group has given to the Government since 2006 that supports our claim, rebuts their reasons for denial and ignores our request for an independent inquiry, we have decided to continue our...
GOOD NEWS – RCB Review Group to meet with Minister Darren Chester
Persistence, Perseverance and Patience. The Minister has agreed to meet with the RCB RG in Canberra on the 26th and the 27th November 2018. The first meeting is with the Minister’s Defence Advisor and Defence Department staff and the second meeting with the Minister....
RCB E-News Update – 3/2018
Since the last Update the Review Team has been actively involved in further evidence discoveries and representations to the Government’s House of Representatives Petitions Committee, complaint and appeal to the Defence Ombudsman, letters to all Parliamentarians and...
Chaplain Gary Stone Speaks out on Recognition of RCB Service 1970-1989
As a veteran of almost 48 yrs military service, the last 24 of which I served as a Chaplain , I must raise my grave concerns about the morality of the treatment of our veterans by ADF and Government officials in their continuing rejection of the substantive evidence...
RCB Service Recognition – Senator Anning’s Questions to Marise Payne
In the Senate Question Time yesterday, 18th September, Senator Fraser Anning (Katter' s Australian Party) asked Sen. Marise Payne three questions on RCB Service recognition as warlike during the Malaysian Counter Insurgency War. We thank Senator Anning for his...